If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.
A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Television is such a mediocre medium.